TEHRAN – The Iranian Intellectual Property Center will participate in the BRICS Intellectual Property Office (HIPO) Heads of Government meeting scheduled to be held virtually from December 1 to 5 in Brazil.
According to Mehr News Agency, the conference will be attended by Iranian experts in specialized fields such as patents, designs, and trademarks.
Representatives from the national intellectual property centers of BRICS member countries will meet to promote knowledge, share expertise, and foster multilateral strategic cooperation among member countries.
Participants will discuss issues such as new methods for patent classification, international standards for the registration and exchange of information, the integration of artificial intelligence in the patent examination and registration process, and new guidelines for evaluating medical patents.
GII: Iran secures position
According to the 18th edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) report, the Islamic Republic of Iran has remained ranked second among countries in the Central and South Asia region for the past three years.
GII 2025 measures innovation performance across 139 economies and announces the world’s top 100 innovation clusters. Track global innovation trends through investment patterns, technological advances, adoption rates, and socio-economic impacts.
According to this year’s report, Iran ranks 70th among the 139 economies listed in the GII in 2025. In 2024, Iran ranks 64th out of 133 economies listed in the GII.
The country ranks 17th among 36 upper-middle-income economies. In 2024, Iran will rank 5th among 38 lower middle income group economies.
GII ranks global economies according to their ability to innovate. The GII consists of approximately 80 indicators categorized into innovation inputs and outputs and aims to capture the multidimensional aspects of innovation.
As stated in the 2025 edition, the statistical confidence interval for Iran’s ranking in the past six years (2020-2025) is between 56th and 75th.
Iran will be better at innovation output than innovation input in 2025. This year, Iran ranks 109th in innovation input, down from last year (85th).
Iran ranks 46th in innovation output. This ranking was higher than last year (48th place).
In the case of Iran, five indicators improved in the short term (international patent applications, connectivity, robots, labor productivity, and life expectancy), and five indicators worsened (scientific publications, research and development (R&D) investment, number of venture capital deals, fixed broadband, and temperature change).
Iran ranks highest in creative production (45th place), knowledge and technology production (46th place), and human capital and research (66th place).
The country ranks last for institutions (138th), business sophistication (107th) and infrastructure (98th).
Iran performs better than the upper-middle income average in human capital and research (Iran’s score is 32.43 compared to the upper-middle income score of 29.7). In knowledge and technology outcomes, Iran’s score is 27.46, while the upper middle income group’s score is 20.0. creative output (Iran’s score is 31.87; upper middle income group’s score is 22.6);
The report, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), ranks Iran first in terms of market capitalization.
It ranks 2nd, 5th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 14th, 14th, 22nd, and 23rd in terms of trademark source, software expenditure, total capital formation, science and engineering graduates, labor productivity growth, industrial design by source, patent by source, domestic market size, and high-tech imports, respectively.
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